Backwater Quotes
- Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely… — Richard Dawkins
- In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation… — Barbara Ehrenreich
- Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today.… — Stacy Schiff
- Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater… — Clive Cussler
- Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world. — Richard Engel